Sin Scissors & Scythe

Demonic wraiths come in 4 types: Sin Scissors, Death Scissors, Sin Scythes, and Death Scythes. These Wraiths all wear masks to keep their power in the human world and their bodies seem to be that of ghostly robes resembling the ghastly appearance of the Grim Reaper.

Sins
Sin Scissors and Sin Scythes wear a human facemask to keep their power in the human world. Their haunting evil laughter while sound feminine, echoes as they are approaching, and again echoes when they die. While Sin Scissors chose deadly scissors as their own shape, their counterparts, the Sin Scythes, chose deadly scythes as their shape s well.

Deaths
The Death Scissors and Death Scythes wear a large bull skull mask to manifest in the human world. They are much stronger and powerful than their Sin predecessors. They both share the ability to cripple Dante's offensive capabilities by concentrating their evils into their skulls (indicated by their skulls glowing for the duration). Their evil laugh though sounded much deeper, echoes when they are approaching, and echoes again when they die.

Strategy
Attack their masks as hard and fast as you can to take out these enemies. Firearms work very well, sword attacks are half-effective. Their cloaks serve to render all attacks useless, so don't bother going for the cloaks. The Sin Scissors are slow attackers and simply attempt to snip at Dante. Sin Scythes spin and throw their scythes at Dante.

Death Scissors use curved cutting shears and, whenever encountered, imprison Dante in an evil field to restrict his space. Death Scythes carry 4 scythes and conjure tornado whirls on the ground to propel Dante up into the air (these can be exploited to reach higher grounds and to get above the Death Scythe with your Air Raid technique). The Death Scythe may at times berserk and throw all scythes at Dante. They can be destroyed to disarm the Scythe and render it helpless.